back pains

point taken, althrough the fact i am getting similar symptoms means its not something i should overlook.

I asked my dad if he could take me down to The leicester shop which does fitting, and he said it was a load of B** (you got it). Quite honestly i think i believe a forum of people over him, even if it did happen to be balls and there be nothing wrong with my position i think its better safe than sorry.

Here is more info that you may find useful:
http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/back.html

It specifically mentions handlebar and seat position as possible aggravating items.

webbhost said:

Probably just getting used to it then. The biggest ride i done befoer these is 6 miles (but only 3 times) and 3 miles before that.

Probably just not used to leaning fowards on a bike for 2 + hours.

It is safest to slowly ramp up distance and intensity, especially if you do not have much of a history in the sport. 10% increases over what you have done before is the safest.

You also need to pay attention to what your body is telling you. Don't try to train through pain. Pull back and recover for a few days.

Also rides of 3 - 6 miles are not very much. You should expect to have aches and pains when jumping up to 30.

not doing 30 miles every day like, only done it twice so far with a good rest period between them.

It wont take me alot to get used to. why 10% increases? My endurance book says you can generally do 3 x more than your usual bike ride (althrough my usual is 3 miles to work that means i should only be able to do 9, i can still do 34 so im sticking at that for now. Not going further until i feel comfortable with this.

webbhost said:

It wont take me alot to get used to. why 10% increases? My endurance book says you can generally do 3 x more than your usual bike ride...

10% is just a conservative increase. Cycling is no different than weight lifting or running. The greatest chance for injury occurs when untrained or lightly trained people over do it. You have to take into account your experience and history in the sport. If I take some time off I might ramp up from zero to eighty mile rides in a week, but I am prepared to suffer and I know it won't injure me because I have done it before and I know my position and cleats are fitted correctly. That does not mean someone who is just starting out shoudl do the same.

Any time you do 3x your usual mileage you will suffer.

I ride alot and I have found the comfort bikes the best choice for your body. 🙂

webbhost said:

Probably just getting used to it then. The biggest ride i done befoer these is 6 miles (but only 3 times) and 3 miles before that.

Probably just not used to leaning fowards on a bike for 2 + hours.

You shouldn't jump from 6 miles to 34 that quick. You have to ease into it. Do 6 then 10 then 14 then 18 and so on. Even on the perfect size bike and with perfect form your gonna hurt jumping from 6 to 34 miles. You also have a better chance of burning yourself out.

The pain you feel in your back is probably due to incorrect posture while riding your bicycle. You can change the position of the handlebar because it may also help you in preventing the pain.

jimlangley.netbikefit.htmlOpen ↗

this web page made a huge difference I'm my feeling during riding. I also got some kinesio tape which is amazing. Once I raised my seat a bit I have not had back problems since. I thought if I raised my seat I would bend more and have more back problems, but I guess that's why common sense isn't so common.

Dear thread starter, I want you to know that pain is your body's way of warning you to "don't do that".

If you feel a pain as you described, find a way to avoid that pain?

I avoid my back pain by limiting my time on my feet, and by riding a "dutch style" (upright seating) bike.

I used to love my road bike. Here is why I cannot road bike anymore, and we cannot ignore reality:

http://photobucket.com/images/lumbosacral%20reid%20welch%201992/

((this is after two failed back surgeries...see the "u-turn" that the spinal cord root makes around the blown-out disc?))
double click on the image to see how "mechanical" failures in our bodies can be visualized, and are not to be ignored or denied.....

This is the most common form of human lower back injury.
It will tend to cause pain in the lower back, and often in the buttock, and sometimes, numbness or tingling or aching pain running down one leg.
It is not dangerous, but can become chronic if you ignore the cause.

You are less than forty? Think of your vertibral disks as leathery, "jelly donuts". They are pads filled with a sort of cushioning gel.
If you suffer a rupture of any of the disks, you get a displacement of nerve tissue, as seen in my exampled photo. Ouch forever.
In my case, typical, the disk fully ruptured, or "fractured". It felt exactly like the squirt of a jelly doughnut, mashed.

Anyone less than forty is much more likely to suffer this sort of permanent injury.
As we age, though, the disks tend to become more leathery, all the way through, and less liable to rupture.
So, if you are young, pay more attention to back and neck pain? Such pains are not "imaginary" or "sports pains", not like mere muscle aches, etc.

I blame the executive officer of USS Orion, AS-18.

I was eighteen or nineteen years old. "You! Sailor! Volunteer to help here!"

I was just finishing my lunch in the crew's mess of Orion, carrying my lunch tray from the table,
and the hated XO ordered me to help carry a huge wall-sized air conditioner unit from the mess deck to his quarter's deck.

I got the heavy end of the unit, and was under it, trying to lift a 150 pound AC with my 130 pound body, up a 45 degree ladder.
I felt something give way in my lower back. Pain. It never got better at basis.

Forty years later I exist in a reclining chair most hours of the day, for two reasons, one being physical....